Alice B. Grist

These Women's Marches have had me thinking. I am in great awe at the power represented by the unity of Women, and men, against what they perceive as an infringement of their beings...

​ We have a legacy to create and a world to fix. It's not so simple as a 'decent' life. Many of us in the western world have a decent life. It's more. It's bringing back the intuition, the magic, the innate power of empathy and love and nurture. These things are not just Womens. They are all of ours. And the lack of them leads to this... A place where poverty, violence, addiction and fear thrive, even in the successful. A poverty of spirit. A fear laden understanding of every goddamned day. A violent reproach to those who seem different or lack the fundamentals of what we see as 'us'. And religion won't fix it for that is often too strictly plumbed into the agenda. Politics feeds it for votes.

What will help then? Spirit. Unity. Individuals Seeing each other and accepting. Trusting our own spirit as opposed to a holy one. Becoming fraught with our frustrations and acting on them. Seeking peace yet speaking loudly. Trusting a pattern. In our lives. In a bigger picture. In the signs. In connection. Looking beyond the prison of our bodies as society captures them and seeking something 'more' that echoes through synchronicity and luminous gut feeling. Because anyone can ignore you. But you mustn't ignore yourself.